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EMPIRE'S SURVIVAL.
Lord Birkenhead's Views.
MILITARY IN INDIA.
People Of Same Stock And The Same Thought.
London, Oct. 6.
TRADE BARRIERS.
Import And Export Restrictions.
INDIVIDUAL NEEDS.
China's Reservations On Salt And Rice.
Geneva, Yesterday.
DEAD SEA MINERALS.
British Company Gets Concession.
SIR A. MOND'S DENIAL.
Proposition Will Benefit Develop. ment Of Palestine,
London, Yesterday. Lord Birkenhead, speaking at a The Trade Barrier's Conference Considerable interest has been luncheon given by the British has resumed discussion of Article aroused by the report that a Bri- Passenger Agents' Association, Four of the draft agreement re-tish syndicate has been granted a referring to the unveiling of the lating to the classes of restric-concession for reclaiming the Neuve Chapelle Memorial to In- tions at present unprohibited. mineral resources of the Dead dian soldiers to-morrow, said: Prince Chardon, Siam, while sup- Sea. It is, however, denied by Sir "We, perhaps, are somewhat porting the removal of barriers on Alfred Mond that the syndicate in apt to forget the Indian military imports and exports, said that question is the chemical combina- effort. That immense congrega- Siam was bound to retain the tion known as the Imperial Chemi- tion of communities, at the pre- right to prohibit the export of cal Industries, of which Sir A. sent moment, is approaching a rice in the event of the failure of Mond is Chairman. period in which its Constitutional crops.
Sir A. Mond says, "I have re- future must be further examined Chi Yung-hsiao, China, said his garded the reclamation as a high- under the terms of the very in-Government reserved the right to ly interesting proposition. strument which gave it the Con-japply the existing prohibitions as concession has been granted to a stitution.
to the importation of sait, and ex- British syndicate at the head of Continuing, he said that the portation of rice and other cereals. which is an engineer who has British Empire was built up by the indestructible attachment of people of the same stock and the same thought, who intended to adhere together, no matter whatį were the fortunes of the world.
Reuter.
A ROUND UP.
{Continued from page 1.)
The
done an immense amount of ex- ploratory work. Negotiations for the concession have been going on with the Colonial Office for five years and now that some definite! stop has been taken, I am prepar- ed to explore the situation and form some opinion concerning its
The Empire would survive, be- cause it was not a question of one out of the building and went right part of the Empire belonging to across the road to the reclamation ultimate commercial value if another part, but because we were in front of his cycle. It was for a satisfactory nature can be ar all one people..
tunate that the witness was going ranged.
"If the scheme became of a at only 10 miles per hour and was
Flag Controversy.
Ryrie, High Commissioner of Australia, said that there never had been greater solidarity in the British Empire than now.
Knowing South Africa, he did not attach much importance to its flag controversy, South Africans, on the whole, were true to the Empire.-Reuter.
A fine of $15 was imposed.
Private Cars.
Major-General Sir Granville able to pull up in time to avoid run-considerable commercial proposi- ning into the lorry. If he had been tion, it would be undoubtedly going at 15 miles an hour' it would beneficial to the development of have been impossible to avoid a cól-Palestine, partly by creating on the spot an agricultural fertiliser Hsion.
of importance and by creating what would be for a small coun- It For passing a tram car on the try considerable industry." wrong alde of the road in Des would call for big expenditure on Vaux Road West, the driver of transportation, however, as there private motor car No. 593 was fin-is none at present from the Dead Sea to any port except road trans- ed $10.
Afine of $5 was imposed on the portation."--British Wireless Ser- driver of private motor car No. 969 vice. for leaving the car unattended out- side the Exchange Building on Oc- tober 18.
QUEEN'S BROTHER.
DEATH OF MARQUESS OF CAMBRIDGE.
HIS ARMY CAREER..
NEW FORD CAR.
"SMART LOOKING, LOW
The driver of, Mr. George Lee's car No. 7 was fined $10 for pass- London, Yesterday.
ing a stationary tramcar in Des
AND RAKISH” The Marquess of Cambridge, Voeux Road Central on October 3. brother of, Queen Mary, died in a For causing an obstruction in
TRAVELS 50 M.P.H. nursing home at Shrewsbury this Queen's Road Central on October 9 evening. For some time past he the driver of private motor car No.
Detroit, Yesterday." had been in ill health. To-day it 1196 was fined $5.
The first new type Ford car 'was No Hong Kong Licence. was found his condition had be-
When the owner of a garage in completed at the end of last week come serious and an operation was Taiwo Street, Wanchai, was charg-at the Fordson Plant in the pre- hurriedly performed, but failed to save his life.
ed with parking car No. 1958 in sence of Mr. Henry Ford and Mr. It was subsequently The Marquess, who was born at Sergeant Tuckett told the Magis placed at the Company's office at
the street all night on October 18, Edsel Ford. Kensington Palace 59 years ago was the eldest son, of the late trate that the car was originally Dearborn alongside the fifteen mil- Duke of Teck and Princess Mary owned by the garage but had since lionth model T which, officially, is Adelaide, daughter of the first been sold. The new owner, he un- the last of a long line of ancestors
of the "Flivver" family. paying the garage Duke of Cambridge. He made his derstood, was
The new Ford is in strong con- career in the British Army, serv- people $10 per month to store the
It is amart- ing first with the 17th Lancers car, but instead of keeping it in trast with the old.
It can defendant left it looking, low and rakish. and later with the 1st Life the garage, the Guards. He took an active part outside. A fine of $7 was impos- travel 50 miles an hour easily, and in the South African war, and ed.
60 If pressed. A Chinese was charged with driv- was present at the relief of Kim- berley.
ing motor lorry No. 1510 in Hong During the Great War he acted Kong without a licence. as Assistant Military Secretary It was explained by Sub-Inspec- 4.30 p.m. at the War Office and subsequent tor Alexander that the defendant ly as Assistant Military Secretary had a licence to drive in Kowloon at General Headquarters in only, and in order to drive in France, with the rank of Briga- Hong Kong the defendant would vice. dier General. He succeeded to the have to be examined on this sido. title of the Duke of Teck in 1900 The Magistrate imposed a fine of MOSCOW SPY TRIAL. on the death of his father, but $7. relinquished the title in 1917 when he was created Marquess of Cambridge. British Wireless Service.
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CONVENTION.......
Geneva, Yesterday.
Road Under Repair.
The driver of lorry No. 2205 was Aned $7 for causing an obstruction in Connaught Road Central at 8.20 a.m on October 14.
tentative
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Already there are orders for 875,000 of the models, and the Company expects eventually to produce 11,000 daily against the maximum of 8,000 "Flivvara" produced under the old acheme.--Reuter's American
Ser-
TWO BROTHERS SENTENCED TO DEATH.
LEADERS EXPELLED.
Moscow Communists' Decision.
Moscow, Yesterday. As a result of the spy trial the Sergeant Cameron summoned this brothers Vladimir and Cyril, driver of motor car No. 861 for Prove and Korepanov have been driving on the wrong side of the sentenced to death and Nonov and road at Quarry Bay
Podrezkor to two years' imprison Defendant said that he had to ment-Reuter. drive on the right as the road was under repair on the left hand side. Herr Kastl, the German mem-
The Sergeant said that the only ber, took his seat for the first work that was going on was the time at the 12th session of the laying of some tram tracks in the Permanent Mandates Commiscentre of the road, and there was sion.
plenty of room for the defendent
The decision to expel the, Op- A report was submitted by the to pass on the left.
position leaders was announced in head of the League's mandates Sub-Inspector Alexander, who a communique following a joint section and it was announced that said he had been down to see the plenary sitting of the, Central 1 p.m.
five of the seven mandatory place himself, told the Magistrate Committee and the Central Con- 1.80 p.m. Powers, namely, Britain, New that as a matter of fact there we trolling Commission of the Com- 2 p.m.
Zealand, South Africa, Belgium more room on the left side of the munist Party. The decision was and Australia had ratified the road than on the right where the reached after a report had been whit was in force in nine of the A fine of 87 was imposed. I Anti-Slavery, Convention of 1926, defendant passed presented on the "factional acti-
vities of Opposition leaders dur 14 mandated territories.SK
|ing the past six months. Reuter. The drivers of cars No. 312 and The Chairman, Signor Theodoll, 425 were each fined $5 for causing Italy, deprecated the delay in the
TARIFE DISPUTE. receipt of some of the mandatories
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